#indigenousbooks

[tracyreads]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️for my first read of 2023. I love me some apocalyptic fiction and Moon of the Crusted Snow by @waub now has a place in my reader heart. Sequel out this fall! I wish I had it now. #moonofthecrustedsnow #waubgeshigrice #apocalyptic #horrorbooks #beautifulhorror #horrorspotlight #readdiversebooks #indigenousbooks #horrorbookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQMGzLL6pL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kaireadingclub]

📖 Planting Sweetgrass, pages 1-60

The past year has been full of more alone time than expected, and it can often feel like we are simply waiting on better days to arrive—days when we can visit with friends and family without worry.

Dr. Kimmerer teaches us how pecans participate in mast fruiting, meaning some years they produce no seeds, and other years they produce thousands upon thousands of seeds. 🌱

Over generations, pecans thrive off this way of living. In lean years, they take in carbohydrates and store energy. In fruiting years, they put forth that stored energy and flower together all at once. “All flourishing is mutual.”

Perhaps these are just lean years—time to conserve energy and re-enforce the safety net around yourself and loved ones. We hope you are surviving this time as best you can, and we look forward to a year we can flower together again! ❤️

[kaireadingclub]

📖 Picking Sweetgrass

"He gives the boys some scraps, the model, and a few words in Potawatomi, but doesn't tell them how to make a horse. They're used to this kind of teaching and don't ask questions." 🐴

When a few boys stop by at the basket weaving class, their uncle shows them how to make a horse with the black ash bark ribbons. He doesn't tell them exactly what to do, instead letting them struggle and figure it out on their own.

Nānā ka maka 👀, hana ka lima 👋🏼, pa‘a ka waha 🤐, ho‘olohe ka pepeiao👂🏼

Has anyone else had to learn a new skill by watching, then doing? Sometimes, we may not even know what we're doing at first...

This reminded me of a particularly frustrating moment in which I struggled to make a simple lauhala fish with some friends... 🐠 An uncle came up to us, showed us how to make the lauhala fish, and walked away. I feel like it took me so much longer than my friends to figure out how to weave the simple fish––which I still have to this day 🌱

Sometimes, it can feel embarrassing to learn something new in this way. But, if you don't try out anything new, you won't ever have the chance to succeed, right? 🛶

[akaashmaharaj]

Stephen Kakfwi

I attended an evening at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society with Stephen Kakfwi, for his biography Stoneface: A Defiant Dene.

He is a past President of the Dene Nation and a past Premier of the Northwest Territories.

I was genuinely moved by his restrained but deeply-felt account of his time in the residential school system, his struggle for territorial democracy and Indigenous self-government, and his rise to the Premiership.

He has a gift for compressing profound feeling into few words.

[maadaookii]

New to the collection, gorgeous Indigenous art bookmarks.

[msminjaz]

The next (super appropriate and spooky) Kickstarter read. . . . . . #indigenousbooks #indigenousliterature #indigenouscomics #kickstarter https://www.instagram.com/p/CkXVuR4ubeC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[msminjaz]

The current Kickstarter read: _The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories_. . . . . . #thewomaninthewoods #indigenousbooks #indigenousliterature #indigenouscomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CkFT0P7Obz7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sistahscifi]

Did you see this article by the @theportalist celebrating Indigenous Futurism?!? Books we carry: Elatsoe by @Dr.Littlebadger Future Home of the Living God by Louise_Erdrich (will launch Saturday) Trail of Lightning by @RebeccaRoanhorse Son of the Trickster by @edenrobinson (will launch Saturday) We also launched a new author list shirt celebrating these authors and Grace Dillon @dillgrace. A portion of the proceeds will support the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. #indigenousart #indigenousbooks #scifibooks #fantasybooks #indigenousfuturism #indigenousfuturisms #Elatsoe #DarcieLittleBadger #FutureHomeoftheLivingGod #LouiseErdrich #TrailofLightning #RebeccaRoanhorse #SonoftheTrickster #edenrobinson #SistahScifi (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfJkDtKrlKW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=